S.P.Kurdukar, J.

1. This Letters Patent Appeal has been filed by United India Insurance Company Ltd., (hereinafter referred to as the Insurance Company) challenging the correctness of the judgment and order dated February 21, 1991, passed by the learned Single Judge in Civil Writ Petition No. 3232 of 1981.

2. Narinder Mohan Arya, respondent (the writ petitioner), in the year 1976 was working as Inspector Grade-II with the Insurance Company, the appellant. He filed Civil Writ Petition No. 3232 of 1981, challenging the legality and correctness of the order of removal from service made by the Insurance Company after holding disciplinary enquiry against him. The appellate and the revisional Authorities confirmed the order of removal of the petitioner from service. The disciplinary proceedings were taken up against the petitioner pursuant to the charge-sheet dated 11.1.1978 (Annexure A) to Annexure P3 to the writ Petition. Articles of charges read thus:-

"M/s Aman Singh Munshi Lal of Hansi despatched a consignment of 50 bales of cotton from Hansi to Phulwari Sharif through Hansi Public Carriers Union, Hansi on 21.10.1976. While the aforesaid bales of cotton were lying at Delhi-G